Recipe: Perfect Butter Chicken

Butter Chicken.

You can have Butter Chicken using 24 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Butter Chicken

1. You need of Marinade.
2. Prepare of chicken thigh.
3. It's of plain yoghurt.
4. You need of minced garlic.
5. You need of minced ginger.
6. It's of garam masala.
7. It's of turmeric.
8. You need of ground cumin.
9. Prepare of red chilli powder.
10. Prepare of salt.
11. It's of Sauce.
12. Prepare of oil.
13. It's of ghee.
14. It's of onion, diced.
15. Prepare of minced garlic.
16. It's of minced ginger.
17. Prepare of coriander.
18. You need of garam masala.
19. Prepare of ground cumin.
20. Prepare of crushed tomatoes.
21. You need of salt.
22. Prepare of red chilli powder.
23. It's of heavy cream.
24. You need of sugar.

Butter Chicken step by step

1. Combine all marinade ingredients in a large gallon plastic bag, mixing thoroughly. Chop chicken into bite size pieces and marinate overnight..
2. Heat oil in large saucepan, then add chicken. Stir fry for about five minutes, then remove from pan and set aside.
3. In same pan, heat ghee and add onions, cooking until they sweat. Add garlic and ginger, saute until aromatic..
4. Add coriander, garam masala, and cumin and saute for a minute, then add tomatoes, chilli powder, and salt. Simmer for 10 minutes..
5. Remove pan from heat, then use a stick blender or regular blender to puree sauce..
6. Return blended sauce to pan, then add cream and sugar. Return chicken and juices to sauce and combine. Simmer for another 10 minutes, then serve..